linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure

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Message-ID: <20170820121155.GA624@tigerII.localdomain>
Date:   Sun, 20 Aug 2017 21:11:55 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@...il.com>
To:     Laurent Dufour <ldufour@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:     paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, kirill@...temov.name,
        ak@...ux.intel.com, mhocko@...nel.org, dave@...olabs.net,
        jack@...e.cz, Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        benh@...nel.crashing.org, mpe@...erman.id.au, paulus@...ba.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, hpa@...or.com,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        haren@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, khandual@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        npiggin@...il.com, bsingharora@...il.com,
        Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@...ux.intel.com>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/20] mm: Provide speculative fault infrastructure

On (08/18/17 00:05), Laurent Dufour wrote:
[..]
> +	/*
> +	 * MPOL_INTERLEAVE implies additional check in mpol_misplaced() which
> +	 * are not compatible with the speculative page fault processing.
> +	 */
> +	pol = __get_vma_policy(vma, address);
> +	if (!pol)
> +		pol = get_task_policy(current);
> +	if (pol && pol->mode == MPOL_INTERLEAVE)
> +		goto unlock;

include/linux/mempolicy.h defines

struct mempolicy *get_task_policy(struct task_struct *p);
struct mempolicy *__get_vma_policy(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
		unsigned long addr);

only for CONFIG_NUMA configs.

	-ss